- Are you passionate about building event-driven systems?

- Do you have a strong grasp of Kotlin or Go?

- Do you enjoy finding solutions for significantly impactful challenges?

If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!

Requirements

What you will do

- Build greenfield mission-critical services and expand the reliability of existing ones

- Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues

- Participate in architectural discussions, providing feedback to coworkers and ensuring good practices

- Work closely together with product stakeholders to communicate progress and considerations effectively

Your skills will include (must have)

- Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience

- Deep knowledge of a strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin / Go)

- Explicit (nullable) types

- Strong, minimal contracts

- Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)

- Ambition to build robust, high-quality mission-critical systems, leveraging the power of:

- Automated testing

- Automated monitoring and alerting

- CI/CD infrastructure

- Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:

- Documentation

- Self-documenting naming and structures

- Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)

- Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro-service architecture and container / orchestration systems (preferably Docker / Kubernetes), while bearing in mind:

- Complexity trade-offs

- Fault-tolerance design

- Knowledge of JIRA, Agile and Scrum

- Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams

- Good attention to detail

- Being able to work CET time zone

Nice to have

- Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs.

- Knowledge of eSports and gaming.

- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential

- A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code

- Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment

- Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code)

- Knowledge of modern AI workflows

What you can expect from GRID’s Engineering Team

- Impactful: With a robust CI/CD process, and a full suite of automated tests our engineers ship daily, allowing you to make impact on the product from day one with peace of mind

- Agile & Inclusively: We’ve developed our own kanban-based way of working that is constantly being improved and adapted by the self-organizing product-engineering teams. Opinions and ideas are valued from all

- Quality: Achieved by ensuring detailed stories and epics, high test coverage, a thorough code-review process, consciously taking on technical debt and an open culture of sharing opinions

- Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive

Highlights

We are looking for someone well-versed in Kotlin or Go to join our Engineering team - where you will be developing greenfield services and taking an active role in shaping GRID’s technology landscape.